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give, bestow, confer, grant, accord, award, assign.<br />

intrust, consign, vest in.<br />

make a present; allow, contribute, subscribe, furnish its quota.<br />

invest, endow, settle upon; bequeath, leave, devise.<br />

furnish, supply, help; administer to; afford, spare; accommodate with, indulge with,<br />

favor with; shower down upon; lavish, pour on, thrust upon.<br />

tip, bribe; tickle the palm, grease the palm; offer &c 763; sacrifice, immolate.<br />

Adj. giving &c v.; given &c v.; allowed, allowable; concessional † ; communicable;<br />

charitable, eleemosynary, sportulary † , tributary; gratis &c 815; donative † .<br />

Phr. auctor pretiosa facit [Lat.]; ex dono [Lat.]; res est ingeniosa dare [Lat.] [Ovid].<br />

785. Receiving -- N. receiving &c v.; acquisition &c 775; reception &c (introduction)<br />

296; suscipiency † , acceptance, admission.<br />

recipient, accipient † ; assignee, devisee; legatee, legatary † ; grantee, feoffee † , donee<br />

[Fr.], releasee [Law], relessee † , lessee; receiver.<br />

sportulary † , stipendiary; beneficiary; pensioner, pensionary † ; almsman † .<br />

income &c (receipt) 810.<br />

V. receive; take &c 789; acquire &c 775; admit.<br />

take in, catch, touch; pocket; put into one's pocket, put into one's purse; accept; take<br />

off one's hands.<br />

be received; come in, come to hand; pass into one's hand, fall into one's hand; go into<br />

one's pocket; fall to one's lot, fall to one's share; come to one, fall to one; accrue; have<br />

given to one &c 784.<br />

Adj. receiving &c v.; recipient, suscipient † .<br />

received &c v.; given &c 784; secondhand.<br />

not given, unbestowed &c (give), (bestow) &c 784.<br />

786. Apportionment -- N. apportionment, allotment, consignment, assignment,<br />

appointment; appropriation; dispensation, distribution; division, deal; repartition,<br />

partition; administration.<br />

dividend, portion, contingent, share, allotment, fair share, allocation, lot, measure,<br />

dose; dole, meed, pittance; quantum, ration; ratio, proportion, quota, modicum, mess,<br />

allowance; suerte † .<br />

V. apportion, divide; distribute, administer, dispense; billet, allot, detail, cast, share, mete;<br />

portion out, parcel out, dole out; deal, carve.<br />

allocate, ration, ration out; assign; separate &c 44.<br />

partition, assign, appropriate, appoint.<br />

come in for one's share &c (participate) 778.<br />

Adj. apportioning &c v.; respective.<br />

Adv. respectively, each to each.<br />

787. Lending -- N. lending &c v.; loan, advance, accommodation, feneration † ; mortgage,<br />

second mortgage, home loan &c (security) 771; investment; note, bond, commercial<br />

paper.<br />

mont de piete [Fr.], pawnshop, my uncle's.<br />

lender, pawnbroker, money lender; usurer, loan shark.

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